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Brett Meiselas

πŸ‘€ Speaker
3725 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/1/26

So it's blocking racism.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/1/26

And the Supreme Court goes, no, no, no, no, no.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/1/26

The very focus on racism is racist.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/1/26

If a state legislature says they're not racist and they're gerrymandering for political purposes and you say they're being racist, you being anti-racist and calling them out as racist, you're the racist.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/1/26

And you want to build majority congressional black districts and areas to represent, say, 35 percent of the population is black and to make sure they have equal representation.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/1/26

That's racist.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/1/26

You're focused on race.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/1/26

The state legislature just says they are focused on political gerrymandering and that they're not doing race.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/1/26

So we just have to accept them at their word.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/1/26

That's basically what the Supreme Court said.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/1/26

And this is going to have far reaching implications in future elections as well as states are just going to continue to say, hey, we're not doing racist gerrymandering.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/1/26

Sure, we diluted all of the black vote by putting black voters in multiple congressional districts so that they don't even get to elect a single Congress member.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/1/26

But we were doing political gerrymandering, which is perfectly okay.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/1/26

Democrats want to ban all forms of gerrymandering.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/1/26

Republicans block Democrats' effort to block all gerrymandering.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/1/26

And, you know, I bring all of this up because, you know, there is a path forward, Brett and Jordi and Midas Mighty, where people on a bipartisan basis can work together and do deals.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/1/26

But every time you do it and every time you see the polling data, you know, says, you know, look, Donald Trump and MAGA's policies are detested and despised.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/1/26

What do they do?

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/1/26

They call in the favors from their Supreme Court.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/1/26

They engage in rigging the maps and cheating.